I've been burning to post these past couple of weeks, but the secretary who usually transcribes my words (from my state-of-the-art perso...

Some of my associates are just arriving after last night's firm-wide Halloween party. As it got late, I told a few of them they didn...

Sorry for the long delay between posts. I was trying to paper-train this new dog Ellen DeGeneres gave me. And then the media got involved,...

Today was our first annual Volunteer Day at the firm, orchestrated by the new Outreach Committee, organized as part of a settlement after a ...

I just sent an e-mail to the firm's associates regarding the recent removal of the water cooler from the 17th floor. I haven't been...

I was in the restroom today and I saw an associate in the stall next to me wiggle his fingers under the partition between stalls. I ignored...

An associate invited me to his wedding this past weekend. I assume he was hoping that actually being at the wedding would make me more will...

I've been asked by multiple readers to post about the Michael Vick dogfighting situation. And I've been reluctant to do so thus far...

A reader pointed me to a Slate article about one of our competitor firms and its program, "Chow For Charity." Under the program,...

I received an e-mail asking me to comment on age discrimination in law firm hiring: "A few weeks ago, there was a terrible article in t...

I'm feeling a little guilty today. Not too guilty, but a little bit. It's not really my fault, but an associate died in a train mi...

I'm very excited for this afternoon. We've set up our first-ever summer associate "afternoon movie break" to go see ...

We lost another associate today. Apparently he's annoyed that I ran him over with my car last month. I was late to a deposition. He w...

Our new crop of summers started yesterday. I added a couple of recent movie clips to my orientation speech. Thank You For Smoking, to show...

Roger Clemens reminds me what's right about the world. In case you missed it, this afternoon he announced that he's signed with the...

I just left a message on an associate's cell phone. He was supposed to meet me in the office this morning to work on some document revi...

Another quick post, not in character: I'm going to be out in LA for the next couple of weeks, for some TV-writer staffing meetings my ag...

A reader alerted me to an article in today's New York Daily News about a lawyer who leaped to his death from an office on the 69th floo...

I'm sorry. I received enough negative responses to my April Fools Day post that I've been persuaded to remove it from the site. In...

I've received a number of e-mails asking for my thoughts on Aaron Charney's sexual orientation discrimination suit against Sullivan ...

A reader sent me a link to a Washington Post article from a couple of weeks ago about a law student who's finding it hard to get a job ...

I received an e-mail this week from a real go-getter. I'll reprint the e-mail below. I wish I could help him, but ever since an incide...

There's a blood drive going on in the lobby of our building today. One of my colleagues e-mailed the firm offering to buy dinner for wh...

I just set up an Anonymous Lawyer fantasy baseball league on Yahoo. Similar to last year, but a couple fewer teams, since the free agent poo...

Slate has an article about the $200,000 bonuses that most firms offer to lure former Supreme Court clerks to their offices, and how that...

I got home early from the office yesterday and happened to catch the last half of the new game show on Fox, "Are You Smarter Than A Fif...

I've been meaning to write about Matthew Courtney, the London associate at Freshfields who died a couple of weeks ago after falling from...

I was attacked by an associate again, hence the delay in posting. I wrote a series of posts on pad and paper while I was recuperating, and ...

The big talk in the office today is about the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change releasing its report that there's over 90% certa...

I read an article yesterday about a guy who's suing his law school for discriminating against slow typists. He claims that exams are s...

The Wall Street Journal has a new blog about juggling home and work. That's the kind of phrase people who are committed to their caree...

Any readers in the UK can get the Anonymous Lawyer novel (paperback from Vintage Originals, a division of Random House) over at Amazon UK fo...

A reader e-mailed to ask what I thought about the summer associates being beneficiaries of the recent law firm salary bumps. Frankly, if we...

I'm sorry I was unable to post yesterday. The firm decided to shut down the Internet for a while, in order to stop associates from e-ma...

We're feeling pressure to match the salary increases announced over the past few days at some New York-based law firms. So far, as far ...

A historic day at the firm today. The partnership held elections this afternoon for a handful of leadership positions that recently opened ...

I caught a review today of a new book by Dinesh D'Souza called "The Enemy At Home." In it, he blames the cultural left for Se...

One of my associates marched into my office today to tell me his wife is pregnant, he wants to be present at the baby's birth, and he wa...